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Comment · 5 years ago
Don't the police already use kid gloves to handle most of the situations? I've been watching livestreams of these for a solid year now and that seems to be a common theme: the police are in general far nicer and accommodating than they could be or even should be.

The dramatic brush you're painting this with is extremely unrealistic.

Comment · 5 years ago
There have been many cases of rioters claiming press credentials in attempts to bypass responsibility for criminal activity. "I'm not with mob of rioters attempting to burn down that courthouse, I'm a journalist. See, look on my helmet - P R E S S."

I think that was common in Portland over the last year.

Comment · 5 years ago
I had previously referenced the Washington Post's police shootings database, but that is now paywalled. I was referring to that stats stating that of the roughly 1000 police killings in 2019, something like 50 involved unarmed suspects. Of those 50, almost all of them involved those suspects attacking the police and lethal force being justified.

The Botham Jeans and Daniel Shavers, as horrifically egregious as those cases are, are relatively rare.

Comment · 5 years ago
- Define 'structural racism' and why it forces blacks to be far more criminal and violent than the rest of the population.

- Can poverty explain, for example, why blacks in Wisconsin commit 2/3 of all violent crime while they are only 7% of the state's population? There are wholly White and Native American cities in Wisconsin that are dirt poor - the poorest - and yet they are not committing insanely high levels of crime.

Comment · 5 years ago
>A better term for it might be “Police Lynching”.

No, it wouldn't. That is unnecessary hyperbole. Unjustified police killings, instances where the police were at fault, are a rarity. The big problem here is not lack of police training nor overreach, but violent, uncooperative suspects.

>failing to show the correct level of subservience

While there are some grotesque examples of that, like with Daniel Shaver, most police killings, the overwhelming majority of them, are due to them being attacked by someone or being confronted with an armed suspect who refuses to disarm.

>Not saying all of them are racist, but to some police, everyone is the wrong color (not blue).

Are there any actual instances of racism being the driving impetus for police killings at any time in recent decades? I cannot think of any offhand.

Comment · 5 years ago
>They run propaganda in prime time every single night.

All major news outlets run propaganda - not just in prime time, but all of the time. That is their job. The NY Times does have the privilege of being one of the primary establishment press outfits, resulting in their main aim being setting the tone for propaganda outfits around the nation and throughout much of the western world.

If you want to know which way the wind is blowing inside the FBI or CIA, the NY Times is where you go.

To compare them to Fox is pointless, as Fox does little to no print journalism. NY Times excels in [often overly-]lengthy, well-written articles, whereas I don't think Fox has ever done much more than briefs and blurbs.

Comment · 5 years ago
This made-for-TV change of heart might indicate he'll be joining the league of superwealthy philanthropists like Bill Gates and George Soros who leave their lengthy, extraordinarily and unforgivably damaging lives of evil behind to become a power for good. I mean, surely that is exactly what this means.

>Hopefully peoples' memories aren't so short

Who has time for thinking when Marvel Megahero Show #34 has 3000 new episodes to binge? Besides, he's donating to or even directing all the Right Causes now! He's like a real life superhero.

Comment · 5 years ago
Azimuth is a Unit 8200 shop, just as Cellebrite is. So, yes, still an Israeli outfit.
Comment · 5 years ago
I don't think there's any indication that mask requirement will abate anytime soon. All posturing from western leadership point to precisely the opposite. The notion that the mask requirement will disappear in as early as 1-2 years is farcically optimistic.
Comment · 5 years ago
Your snarky, condescending post most definitely goes against HN rules. You did not attempt engage the parent, you did not address the content of their post whatsoever, instead, in a sarcastic tone, resorted to preaching a total aside.
Comment · 7 years ago
Once that is accomplished you'd be living in a land of warlord fiefdoms. No women or children would ever be safe unless protected by strongmen. Society would stagnate into a dark age. You might as well move to Afghanistan.
Comment · 7 years ago
So if you don't detain them you do what then? Let them roam free? Considering the amount of fraud related to asylum claims, with entire legal entities dedicated to coaching aliens to provide fake testimony, letting them roam free is a definite risk for citizens. Especially as they are coming from one of the most violent warlord-controlled warzones in the hemisphere.
Comment · 7 years ago
How else would you handle masses of criminal aliens? Would diffuse holding facilities of small size be smarter? Of course not. Facilities to concentrate the population of criminals until they can be processed are going to be necessary, that is the inevitable result of porous borders.

You seem to be confusing concentration camp - you know, any holding facility whatsoever - with death camps. They are not synonymous.

Comment · 7 years ago
The Slippery Slope is often more truism than fallacy. In this situation it is spot-on.
Comment · 7 years ago
Just recently all of the search projects seem to have gotten significantly worse. Image search has been crippled with removal of the size options. Web search seems like a parody or cheap imitation anymore, presenting even worse result than usual, and instead of being able to customize the search to fix that, you end up with Bing-like results giving you crap you explicitly tried to exclude.

Then there's all those silly, frivolous overly-rounded corners mucking up the GUI.

On the up side: I do look forward to competitors stepping forward to fill the space that Google used to fill. That is inevitable.

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